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Title: The first Belgian hare course of instruction. Twenty lessons. Complete directions for buying, sheltering, feeding, breeding ... developing a business, etc. ... with a true history of the Belgian hare ..
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Crabtree, Pleasant Elijah New England Belgian Hare Company Rice, Elmer Cook, 1868-
Subjects: Belgian hare
Publisher: Boston, New England, New England Belgian Hare Company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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oom should be cool and well ventilated, butnot draughty, and that the scoring should be done in a slightlysubdued light. That in Germany and France, roasting pans made just tofit the shape of the dressed Belgian (see illustration on pre-ceding page) are used extensively. That every exhibition should be advertised, especially thename of the judge, so that breeders will have confidence thatno favors are going to be arranged at the last moment. Thajt the price of the meat should top poultry prices. That unnatural tusks which Belgians sometimes developshould be pulled. I have seen these tusks grow to such an ab-normal length that the animal could not use its jaws, andwould starve to death. That Belgians are the most practical meat producing ani-mal. They need small space, have no vermin, eat at night ifnecessary, do not gormandize, are the most cleanly animal liv-ing regarding what they eat, can be raised in the city as wellas country, produce the most meat per pound of feed of anyanimal.
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Copyriglit, 19ol, by the New Kuglaiid Belgian Hare Co. SCORING SIZK OF FRONT FKKT. For Description See Page Ico. LESSON NINETFEN.HOW TO DEVELOP A BUSINESS. THE RABBIT fancier should watch the state of the marketclosely, and make up his mind to use his own judgmentand not take sayso of others. He should welcome anexhibition, for there, if the judges are competent andhonest, as they usually are, for no nonsense in judging is tol-erated, and desirable animals will be indicated by the dipo-sition of prizes. The fancier then should make up his mind to get servicefrom the prize bucks, or buy the offspring. A beginner can make no better start than by buying ani-mals that have taken prizes, or their offspring. Most of the imported animals were bought in England, notfrom the original breeders, but from middlemen, or jobbers.The beginner should buy in the best place, where he can getthe most for his money. Many who advertise as breeders andadvise beginners to buy only from breeders fill up thei

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